Samsung's new LCD displays
Samsung just introduced a bunch of new LCD monitors at the Asia Display 2004 conference in Korea. Samsung execs seemed most excited about their new mercury-free LED backlights because they comply with new environmental regulations but we're way more excited that they're just half as thick as previous models, brighter (they're 500 nits compared to the 250 that's average for an LCD), and have 92% color saturation level that supposedly produces colors "very close to nature". They also did away with the touch screen control panel, building it right into the LCD and thus making it even thinner still.
The 17-inch and 21.3inch models were to be expected but there was also a 46" Portrait size (most likely to be used as in-store billboards) and a 2.6-inch model for mobile screens that we've mentioned before that'll give PDAs and cellphones a nice VGA resolution.
